–YOU KNOW YOU KNEAD IT–

The interior of the boat is ready to be painted. I hadn’t visited the boatyard in an embarrassingly long time. So on Monday afternoon, the Smalls and I drove the 20 minutes there, armed with tea-making supplies and a few snacks. M was Very Happy To See Us – particularly Small Z.

The beginning looked a little like this. This photo was taken on 14 November 2006.

M has spent the last five months or so working on the interior. Constructing it. Sanding every. last. inch. of. it. until his fingers bled so it can be spray painted – something he will do in the near future. I feel for M. So much of his amazing, incredible and time consuming work will *never* be seen by anyone. No one will even know it’s there…all the joins, the shaping, the glassing, the endless sanding, designing, the workarounds, the ongoing dust…

It was great for us to see where it’s at – but particularly Small Z, who probably can’t remember when she last saw the thing. The thing? The Very Large Catamaran has a name. M has dubbed it (her? when does it move from an ‘it’ to a ‘her’?) BELLA LUNA…

Loopsta

Wow. Wow. Wow! What an amazing job M has done – you have both done – to get this boat built! I can barely get my head around crafting something so big. That needs to be so… seaworthy! Love the name. Love the slipway scribble. Does it feel like you’ll be living life aboard soon? Is six months the guesstimate for launching her?

beth

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Ah – thank you so much for all the positivity!! It’s such a long haul and the visual updates have been few. As of a few days ago (when our building insurance renewal notice arrived) I have decided to give up on voicing potential end dates. M tells me it will be more than six months and it has taken me a few days to deal with that in my own head. Despite this, we like our house, we like our garden, we like our neighbours and our friends, so it’s not as hard as it could be…